Hi there,
I have tried to submit smolt.master-smoon.messages.po but it will not work for some reason... Transifex returns the following error: "Your file does not pass by the check for correctness (msgfmt -c). Please run this command on your system to see the errors."
After running the above command (and a few others), I found that the problematic strings were :
#: hardware/templates/deviceclass.html:19 #, python-format msgid "% hosts detected ${type}" msgstr "% hôtes détectés ${type}"
Looking for a solution, I have tried to add a second percentage sign, or the letter "s" but nothing changed. I eventually looked through old emails and noticed that there has been some discussions about the same problem but it seems that there is no solution yet - unless if I overlooked one of the emails. Does anyone have an idea about what could be done ? Regards,
Sam
2009/12/17 Sam Friedmann sfriedma@redhat.com:
#: hardware/templates/deviceclass.html:19 #, python-format msgid "% hosts detected ${type}" msgstr "% hôtes détectés ${type}"
Looking for a solution, I have tried to add a second percentage sign, or the letter "s" but nothing changed. I eventually looked through old emails and noticed that there has been some discussions about the same problem but it seems that there is no solution yet - unless if I overlooked one of the emails. Does anyone have an idea about what could be done ?
There seems to be a problem in the gettext library, in the way it takes the format string. The string comes from a line in deviceclass.html in smolt-server package: <th valign="top" width="25%">${_("% hosts detected ")} ${type}</th> so the string is wrongly extracted. I think it should be msgid "% hosts detected"
Probably filing a bug against gettext would solve the problem. Later, all the translations tools would have to be rebuilt again, which I guess it's something that would take a long time.
Another faster solution would be to ask the developer to change that string to something that doesn't confuse gettext library. I tried that for another package [1] but the developer refused to change it.
As said before, the string is used in the smolts web server, in an html template to produce an output like [2]. But let's face the true: the site is not currently using our translations! or it doesn't detect properly the selected language in my firefox under Fedora 12 and Fedora 11.
To solve the problem, for the Spanish translation we used
msgid "% hosts detected ${type}" msgstr "% hosts detectados ${type}"
and then, we were able to upload the file.
But somebody has to file that bug against gettext package.
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523437
[2] http://www.smolts.org/static/stats/by_class_VIDEO.html
kind regards
Domingo Becker (es)
Le Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:41:19 -0300, Domingo Becker domingobecker@gmail.com a écrit :
2009/12/17 Sam Friedmann sfriedma@redhat.com:
#: hardware/templates/deviceclass.html:19 #, python-format msgid "% hosts detected ${type}" msgstr "% hôtes détectés ${type}"
Looking for a solution, I have tried to add a second percentage sign, or the letter "s" but nothing changed. I eventually looked through old emails and noticed that there has been some discussions about the same problem but it seems that there is no solution yet - unless if I overlooked one of the emails. Does anyone have an idea about what could be done ?
There seems to be a problem in the gettext library, in the way it takes the format string. The string comes from a line in deviceclass.html in smolt-server package: <th valign="top" width="25%">${_("% hosts detected ")} ${type}</th> so the string is wrongly extracted. I think it should be msgid "% hosts detected"
Probably filing a bug against gettext would solve the problem. Later, all the translations tools would have to be rebuilt again, which I guess it's something that would take a long time.
Another faster solution would be to ask the developer to change that string to something that doesn't confuse gettext library. I tried that for another package [1] but the developer refused to change it.
As said before, the string is used in the smolts web server, in an html template to produce an output like [2]. But let's face the true: the site is not currently using our translations! or it doesn't detect properly the selected language in my firefox under Fedora 12 and Fedora 11.
To solve the problem, for the Spanish translation we used
msgid "% hosts detected ${type}" msgstr "% hosts detectados ${type}"
and then, we were able to upload the file.
But somebody has to file that bug against gettext package.
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523437
[2] http://www.smolts.org/static/stats/by_class_VIDEO.html
kind regards
Domingo Becker (es)
If you open a po file in text editor with syntax highlighting , you can see that "% ho" is considered as a macro and that is the issue. You change the space for a unbreakable one in the .pot and it will work :)
Pablo
2009/12/17 Pablo Martin-Gomez pablo.martin-gomez@laposte.net:
Le Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:41:19 -0300,
If you open a po file in text editor with syntax highlighting , you can see that "% ho" is considered as a macro and that is the issue. You change the space for a unbreakable one in the .pot and it will work :)
That's not the issue. Read my message carefully.
Domingo Becker
Domingo Becker a écrit :
2009/12/17 Pablo Martin-Gomez pablo.martin-gomez@laposte.net:
Le Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:41:19 -0300,
If you open a po file in text editor with syntax highlighting , you can see that "% ho" is considered as a macro and that is the issue. You change the space for a unbreakable one in the .pot and it will work :)
That's not the issue. Read my message carefully.
Domingo Becker
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Thanks for all these informations. I have tried to insert a nonbreakable space but I can't seem to find how to insert it in a *.pot file (does anyone know?) In the meanwhile, my next best option is to pretend there has been a typo and to remove the accent on the "o", that is no good, but it still is the next best thing. But yeah, do let me know if there is any other workaround or if there may be a proper solution. Many thanks again! Regards,
Sam
Sam Friedmann wrote:
Thanks for all these informations. I have tried to insert a nonbreakable space but I can't seem to find how to insert it in a *.pot file (does anyone know?) In the meanwhile, my next best option is to pretend there has been a typo and to remove the accent on the "o", that is no good, but it still is the next best thing. But yeah, do let me know if there is any other workaround or if there may be a proper solution.
Arrgh! Sam, I don't think modifying the .pot file should be attempted at all. As Domingo suggested, it is probably best to ask the developer to change the string into something that gettext would be able to understand and extract. Even the solution as suggested from the Spanish translation threw msfgmt errors for the bn_IN file here (could be a case of gettext version in use in the respective local machine) and I finally decided to retain the text in English with a note. I am also worried about the part that since its a command line tool, it may not be ideal to translate into CJKI languages at all. For others, perhaps it might be better to file a bug against these strings and get the developer's attention.
hth Runa
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